The main street was lined with many businesses including Brophy Garage, Bisbee Lumber Company, the Southern Arizona Auto Co. But, Lowell remained a busy active community.
The Copper Queen hospital building was moved from Sacramento Hill when the open pit expanded. After this point, any ore remaining in the former ground of the Lowell mine was mined through the Dallas Mine. The school continues to stand and now serves junior high students.įrom 1935-1940, parts of the Lowell Mines were leased. It included a state-of-the-art auditorium with a fully equipped stage. In 1931, the Lowell School was built across the road from the Evergreen Cemetery. Old mining operations in Lowell, Arizona today by Kathy Alexander. Afterward, the company said that the deportation reduced threats to United States interests in World War I because the wartime demand for copper was heavy. Though a presidential mediation commission described the deportation as “wholly illegal and without authority in law,” no one was ever convicted in connection with the deportations. In the meantime, Phelps Dodge, in collusion with the sheriff, closed down access to outside communications so it was some time before the story was reported. government moved most of the deportees to Columbus, New Mexico. After being warned against returning to Bisbee, the U.S.
Wheeler. Those arrested were loaded onto cattle cars and deported 200 miles to Tres Hermanas, New Mexico. Phelps Dodge, the major mining company in the area, provided lists of workers and others who were to be arrested to Cochise County sheriff, Harry C. With 2,000 members of a deputized posse, the arrests started on July 12, 1917, in Bisbee.
At that time, miners were striking and Phelps Dodge, in collusion with the sheriff, moved to kidnap and deport about 1,300 striking mineworkers and their supporters. That same year, both Bisbee and Lowell suffered from the Bisbee Deportation. However, the operation struggled when water became problematic beyond the 1100 feet level. Work continued rapidly, and the Lowell Mine’s importance was revealed by a monthly payroll of $10,000 with 60 men employed. Hanchett then began to construct buildings and a headframe, and in March, shafts were sunk that would soon reach 900 feet. In February 1899, Frank Hanchett of Lowell, Massachusetts, purchased the property and started the Lowell & Arizona Copper Mining and Smelting Company. Salmon in 1879, however, he completed no work upon the claims. The claims which eventually made up the Lowell Mine were first located by W.S. However, as the Bisbee Mining District spread south and east as more claims were made and more mines opened, houses and businesses followed sprouting up wherever a vacant spot could be found. The one street that is left features mid-century buildings, signs, and artifacts in a colorful display that makes visitors feel as if they have taken a step back in time.īisbee, the “Cooper Queen” of Arizona, got its start in the 1870s in the steep wooded canyon northeast of Lowell. Though the majority of the original townsite was consumed by the excavation of the Lavender Pit mine during the 1950s, what remains today is a photographer’s dream. Lavender Pit in Bisbee, Arizona by Kathy Alexander.
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